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My NTFS non-system partition is now almost well defragmented. However this applies only to small and medium sized files.

There are still approx 40 big files (> 1 GB) which cannot be defragmented because there is no free single (!) space slot where they fit in.

So I need a way to shift all occupied clusters to get free contigous space on my hard disk.Currently about 150 GB is be free on my partition but divided into thousand of individual chunks.

I tried now half a dozend of defragmenters. Sad but true: NO (!) one was able to perform this easy operation.

Can someone recommend me a real defragmenter which is able to perform such a "shift" operation?

Thank youPeter

A:How to shift all free space on hard disk to get contigous free space?

I'm not sure exactly what you have and exactly what you are trying to do.

I personally use Windows 7 built in defrag and have found nothing better.

Windows 7 will put things like Windows 7 wants and needs things put.The Windows 7 defrag or 3rd party defrag programs doesn't care where you want things put or what order you want them.

As far as I know you will have no control over such things.You are obviously using a 3rd party defrag tool because you are watching the little colored squares and noticing what looks like free spaces between things. Why things are defragged in the fashion they are I really don't know.What I do know is Windows 7 defrag put things in the order that Windows 7 wants them and that is what counts.

This morning a new Adobe Flash update has appeared, KB3079777. The update is sized at 17.9mb. Nothing is running on the PC, its idle and with no disk activity. Free space is 55.4GB. I apply the update and free space immediately falls to 54.9gb. This behaviour is consistent with every such patch applied. Now over time, that space will return which suggests that something else is going on here. But what ?

A:Free disk space & space used by a single Flash Update.

Looks like it is just me then. Today brought a 4.6Mb W8.1>W10 computability update. My free space changed from 55.2Gb to 54.7Gb.

i wanted to copy a cd image GB ISO format from partition F NTFS GB free to partition D FAT GB free space and windows gives me that crap there is not enough space and i should do a disk clean up ok i made a disk clean up to partition D and there was GB of system restore files maybe coz i deleted GB earlier anyway i deleted the system restore files and i turned it off so i have now GB free free Solved: space??!!!!! 15GB space it tells me and disk not enough space on partition D and yet it tells me there is not enough space i tried a trick i thought i can use winrar to archive the ISO image and select the destination folder on the partition i wanna move it to but at like winrar popped up a message that only NTFS partions can have files with file size more than GB i hope theres nothing wrong Solved: 15GB free space and it tells me not enough disk space??!!!!! with my windows or my hard disk and i wanna know if theres a way to move that ISO image thanx in advance nbsp

IF YOU ARE UNSURE WHICH FILES ARE SAFE TO MOVE OR DELETE, CONTACT YOUR HELP DESK OR CONSULT YOUR SOFTWARE MANUALS.

This machine has over 30 gigs of free space. It's impossible that there is a disk space issue.

Any ideas what could be causing this? Some sort of mis-communication or setting?

Thanks

A:Disk Space Error - 30 Gigs free space

It should be a configuration setting. I'd call Dell if you just got this machine. Their "english" is a little suspect though. It sounds like some hokey Dell software reminding you to back up your drive. When does the message appear? After it boots?

Setting up a new box Vista sadly to say Installed MS Office XP Pro and get the following error is disk space on this Free space drive some full. when closing MS Word ONLY Excel saves without any errors The disk is full Free some space on this drive or save the document on another disk Try one of the following Close any unneeded documents programs and windows Save the document on another disk I ve moved the file location and same error I cleaned up the drive including removing all restore point except the disk space is full. Free some space on this drive last one Now this thing has a gig drive but it disk space is full. Free some space on this drive is also used for security in a mini mart with cameras There are about Gigs of video from the security cameras on this box At this time I am just setting it up no cameras are connected and the security program hasn t disk space is full. Free some space on this drive been set up yet I just moved the files from the old drive to this one BTW the old drive crashed I ve tried the detect and repair in MS Word and no help I have uninstalled MS Office and reinstalled and no help and even went into Properties and set the user up on quota with no limits and still no help So now I am at a loss and have no idea what to try next Really don t want to delete the security files because it took hours to transfer them to this computer and unless all else fails this isn t a option I want to use Now on the old box which had XP Pro this was not a problem so on Vista it should not be either but then Vista is a MS Software so this is understandable Actually the old box had a gig hard drive so I think it actually has something to do with the O S VISTA but after fooling with this for two days that could just be me Now not sure if I posted in the correct forum if not please move to the correct forum nbsp

I recently cleaned my computer with CCleaner and then shortly after, I got this message saying ' You are running very low on disk space on C:. To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click here.'I'm confused. What I just did was supposed to HELP increase disk space, not to decrease it. Any help is appreciated! Thanks

Having recently bought a new laptop I quickly filled up the GB hard drive with games music videos Disk not up free will space etc I decided to delete some of the games that I hardly play and I have on an external hard drive anyway However no matter how much I Disk space will not free up delete the free disk space barely changes I have deleted at least GB worth of data so far and have MB of free space I just deleted a GB folder and there was absolutely no change in the free disk space I have restarted my computer a few times since deleting the first few items and it hasn t changed upon restart Also I can delete files and folders on my external hard drive from this laptop and it shows that the free space has increased as it should Does anyone know what might be going on I am running a virus scan at the moment and disk cleanup barely did anything either Thanks in advance for the help Edit I right clicked all of the folders on C drive and added up their total sizes It came to roughly GB which is well below the maximum capacity of GB including hidden files and folders System Specs OS Version Microsoft Windows Home Premium Service Pack bit Processor Intel R Core TM Quad CPU Q GHz x Family Model Stepping Processor Count RAM Mb Graphics Card ATI Mobility Radeon HD Mb Hard Drives C Total - MB Free - MB G Total - MB Free - MB Motherboard MSI MS- Ver BSS- Antivirus COMODO Antivirus Updated and Enabled nbsp

A:Disk space will not free up

It looks like I have a program called back on track which was saving 143GB of backup data or something... in the process of uninstalling it

after installing windows 7 on my dell laptop i seem to have virtually no disk space at all..so i cant view pictures properly it always say free up disk space nor can i update my antivirus properly. it has become a big problem. so i am thinking of buying an external hard drive of 1 TB. my only problem is my can i move the contents of operating system in that external hard drive as well? will it still work properly??please help!

A:no free space on disk

i) you dont say how big the hard drive is, or how much used/free space there is on itii) is this the only drive/partition in the machineiii) is this an install / upgrade over the top of a previous version of Windows

can i move the contents of operating system in that external hard drive as well? will it still work properly??Click to expand...

No you cant move the OS to the ext drive and no it wouldnt work properly

I am trying to install the Sims Double deluxe for my son on his computer and am getting the following error

"Sorry, there's not enough disk space free on . 209715200 bytes are required and only -1 bytes are free."

I get the same error when trying to uninstall a different game he has on there. Its got a 40 gig HD and 225MB ram with only about 4GB used so far. The machine seems to be running perfectly other than this problem I am having. Any help is most appreciated, and thanks.

My drive E is full. I tried to install a program [Microsoft LifeCam] and they said free up hard disk space. My computer is Acer Aspire. 320 hard drive. 2 GB memory. I assume I should clean Drive E. How do I do that? Drive C & D have a lot of open space. Any advice would be appreciated,Thank You

A:Free Up Disk Space

Open MY COMPUTER so you can see the list of drive icons.

What are the letters and names of the list of drives?

Right-click each drive icon and then click Properties. What's listed for the size and the amount of free space?

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Newer computers come with the hard drive in 2 partitions. The C partition is the main partition and contains the operating system and programs. The D partition is much smaller and is the recovery partition that contains the files for doing a system recovery back to original factory specs.

Having recently free up Disk not will space bought a new laptop I quickly filled up the GB hard drive with games music videos etc I decided to delete some of the games that I hardly play and I have on Disk space will not free up an external hard drive anyway However no matter how much I delete the free disk space barely changes I have deleted at least GB worth of data so far and have MB of Disk space will not free up free space I just deleted a GB folder and there was absolutely no change in the free disk space Does anyone know what might be going on I am running a virus scan at the moment and disk cleanup barely did anything either Thanks in advance for the help Edit I have restarted my computer a few times since deleting the first few items and it hasn't changed upon restart Also I can delete files and folders on my external hard drive from this laptop and it shows that the free space has increased as it should

A:Disk space will not free up

I right clicked all of the folders on C drive and added up their total sizes. It came to roughly 149GB which is well below the maximum capacity of 320GB (including hidden files and folders).

I have a really confusing problem here.. im not too clued up on PC's, but im not too stupid either. Anyways, I have a file.. 4.3gb in size (3 files actually..) on my PC. I want to copy it over to my brothers laptop and when it gets to about 91% it stops and says "Cannot continue: Not enough free disk space".

Thing is, theres 26gb free on the drive... any ideas?

Thanks in advance!!Skinty

A:Not Enough Free Disk Space?

duplicate thread please use other thread.http://forums.techguy.org/t362277.html

I have a really confusing problem here.. im not too clued up on PC's, but im not too stupid either. Anyways, I have a file.. 4.3gb in size (3 files actually..) on my PC. I want to copy it over to my brothers laptop and when it gets to about 91% it stops and says "Cannot continue: Not enough free disk space".

Thing is, theres 26gb free on the drive... any ideas?

Thanks in advance!!Skinty

(Btw, I also posted this in Networking.. dunno which one to post in Sorry if I wasn't supposed to.)

I ran out of free space on one of my partitions. Capacity of that partition is 54GB. I selected everything on that partition (including hidden files and folders) and size is 34 GB. I should have 20GB free, no?? All i have is 4 GB. but when i right-click > Properties, it shows me that i have 50 GB of used space. So one of 'em is laying or what? pls help me i want to install PES2010 and it requires 8-9GB of free space.

Hi all, I will be cloning my main OS to a smaller size SSD so I'm forced to free up space. 1) I see a folder called "System Volume Information" , size 105GB, with a bunch of files dating back to Septembrer 2015. Are all these files necessary?2) I see a "hiberfil.sys" in the root C, size 25.5GB, but I never use hibernation (I think I have it disabled). Can I shrink this file size somehow?3) I see inside the C:\Windows\LiveKernelReports a Winsock*.dmp file size 3.46GB, is it necessary? Any other tips? Thanks

Hello and helpI am attempting to install some new software and am getting the notice that I do not have enough disk space required for the installation. My C drive shows 31G available 597 MB required for this software 1340 MB. Can someone tell me how to free up disk space? Do I need to delete word documents? Thanks in advance.

A:How to free up disk space

Run Disk Cleanup (Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup. Check the boxes for items you want to cleanup. Also click the More Otions tab and remove old System Restore points and applications you don't use.

If you use Internet Explorer open Tools > Internet Options, and on the General tab clear History and Delete Cookies (caution: this will delete website logon passwords too, so make sure you know them).

If you have installed several Microsoft updates and don't plan to uninstall them, you can safely delete all C:\Windows\$NtUninstallKBxxxxxx$ folders.

Delete all files and folders within C:\Temp, C:\Windows\Temp, C:\Documents and Settings\yourusername\Local Settings\Temp (some may refuse to delete).

Well my drive says i have 300 gigs free in my main C: drive and i keep getting low disk space warnings and it is not allowing me to download things. I have tried scandisk, defrag, and ccleaner. After running a ccleaner i actually lost space somehow. Please help thanks!

A:Low Disk space 300 gigs free

Hello and welcome.. I moved this from Win7 to the Am I Infected forum as you appear to be.Please click Start > Run, type inetcpl.cpl in the runbox and press enter.Click the Connections tab and click the LAN settings option.Verify if "Use a proxy..." is checked, if so, UNcheck it and click OK/OK to exit.Reboot into Safe Mode with NetworkingHow to start Windows 7 in Safe Mode>>>> Download this file and doubleclick on it to run it. Allow the information to be merged with the registry.RKill....Download and Run RKillPlease download RKill by Grinler from one of the 4 links below and save it to your desktop.

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Before we begin, you should disable your anti-malware softwares you have installed so they do not interfere RKill running as some anti-malware softwares detect RKill as malicious. Please refer to this page if you are not sure how. Double-click on Rkill on your desktop to run it. (If you are using Windows Vista, please right-click on it and select Run As Administrator) A black screen will appear and then disappear. Please do not worry, that is normal. This means that the tool has been successfully executed. If nothing happens or if the tool does not run, please let me know in your next replyDo not reboot your computer after running rkill as the malware programs will start again. Or if rebooting is required run it again.If you continue having problems running rkill.com, you can download iExplore.exe or eXplorer.exe, which are renamed copies of rkill.com, and try them instead.Next run Superantisypware (SAS): Download and scan with SUPERAntiSpyware Free for Home UsersDouble-click SUPERAntiSpyware.exe and use the default settings for installation.An icon will be created on your desktop. Double-click that icon to launch the program.If asked to update the program definitions, click "Yes". If not, update the definitions before scanning by selecting "Check for Updates". (If you encounter any problems while downloading the updates, manually download them from here. Double-click on the hyperlink for Download Installer and save SASDEFINITIONS.EXE to your desktop. Then double-click on SASDEFINITIONS.EXE to install the definitions.)In the Main Menu, click the Preferences... button.Click the Scanning Control tab.Under Scanner Options make sure the following are checked (leave all others unchecked):Close browsers before scanning.Scan for tracking cookies.Terminate memory threats before quarantining.Click the "Close" button to leave the control center screen.Back on the main screen, under "Scan for Harmful Software" click Scan your computer.On the left, make sure you check C:\Fixed Drive.On the right, under "Complete Scan", choose Perform Complete Scan.Click "Next" to start the scan. Please be patient while it scans your computer.After the scan is complete, a Scan Summary box will appear with potentially harmful items that were detected. Click "OK".Make sure everything has a checkmark next to it and click "Next".A notification will appear that "Quarantine and Removal is Complete". Click "OK" and then click the "Finish" button to return to the main menu.If asked if you want to reboot, click "Yes".To retrieve the removal information after reboot, launch SUPERAntispyware again.Click Preferences, then click the Statistics/Logs tab.Under Scanner Logs, double-click SUPERAntiSpyware Scan Log.If there are several logs, click the current dated log and press View log. A text file will open in your default text editor.Please copy and paste the Scan Log results in your next reply.Click Close to exit the program.If you have a problem downloading, installing or getting SAS to run, try downloading and using the SUPERAntiSpyware Portable Scanner instead. Save the randomly named file (i.e. SAS_1710895.COM) to a usb drive or CD and transfer to the in... Read more

I normally have roughly 40 - 60 gb of free space on drive c. I noticed it says 14 gb now. I ran jdisk report, that reports 93.9 gb used, windows reports 131 gb used, a big difference. 93 is the "normal" range for c drive. is windows reporting the wrong free space? what can I do to correct this? see attached screenshot.

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thanks.

A:free disk space issue

Hi Sylveon Fetish Is it possible for you to use WinDirStat instead to see how much space is taken on your drive and where is that space being taken? Will be much more efficient than jDisk Report. Also, if you can add a screenshot of the whole WinDirStat window once it's done calculating, it would help.

I'm using WinXP SP My G hard disk has four partitions C G D G E G F G My E drive says it has G free space This is after I methodically deleted all unnecessary files I know that the drive does not have approx G of files on it I wish to reclaim at least G hopefully G of space that it says is not available I just performed space Free [SOLVED] disk up a few virus trojan scans and the drive is clean I also [SOLVED] Free up disk space removed a bunch of restore points that were set for this drive I also just turned off restore points for this drive which had been set to of drive size When I checked the space available this resulted in no new reclaimed space Does anyone here have tips on how I can reclaim at least - G of disk space that I know does not contain files What steps do I need to perform to achieve this TIA P S my other drives do not have this problem all of their taken space is legit

A:[SOLVED] Free up disk space

Hi,

I would recommend that you have a look at Auslogic disk-defrag. It is a free program that you can download and defrag your computer with. It works the same way that the windows defrager does but just faster. That is where I would start at.

Hello - I run Windows XP Professional and while trying to burn cd's I got an alert message telling me I only had 4% free disk space. I removed MSN which took up 111MB and nothing. I tried again and removed my Canon Zoombrowser ex which was 966MB and it still did not affect the percentage of free disk space on my C drive. I don't even have enough disk space to defrag. My computer is 10 GB with 244 meg ram. I have also deleted countless items in my document folder - such things as saved media player videos I received in email attachments and many word documents - all this resulting in no change in my free disk space. I rebooted after removing programs, this also had no effect. I don't know what to try next. Can someone help me? Thank You.

The computer I am referring to is a Microsoft Windows XP Version it s a desktop Okay so one day while I was on the desktop computer I received a little bubble in the system tray saying that I m running out of space on local Can't Disk Local (C:) on up space any free disk C My local space C has a total capacity of GB So I deleted all kinds of documents programs and songs that I didn t need like over a hundred of em Then I would empty the recycle bin thinking that everything would be okay so right after deleting those files I would probably receive GB of free space back but then next thing I know it s back down to bytes of free space which means I did all of that deleting for nothing I thought that once you deleted something from the recycle bin that it was permanently gone at least that s how it worked with some of the other computers in the house So what happened to those files that I deleted Why is my hard drive constantly full no matter how many files I try to delete Please help because alot of people depend on using this computer for school but they can t save anything anymore THANKS

A:Can't free up any space on Local Disk (C:)

Can you post a screenshot from Disk Management?You can use a tool to see what takes up so much space on your hard drive/partition. One such tool is TreeSize Pro Trial - http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/.You are correct in thinking that files deleted which go into the Recycle Bin...are gone once the Recycle Bin has been emptied. But...there are various programs and functions which also may use up hard drive space.There is also the possibility that some malware item is at work on your system...that's why an analysis of what is taking up space is important.Louis

Anyone having problems with running the admin tool "Free Up Disk Space ?"When cleaning system files, does not fully complete on my system and and seems to put strain on HDD (laptop fan high rpm). When I cancel the procedure, it will not start again until after restart of computer.

I am trying to transfer a 4GB file to my external hard drive, which is said to have (under My Computer) 46.3GB free. It keeps giving me a "Cannot copy file... not enough free disk space. Delete one or more files to free up space then try again"... error.

I've rebooted, and I am sure there is more than 4GB free on the hard drive. Any ideas? Is there some max size for a file that you can transfer to a hard drive? I've never heard of that.. but I guess anything is possible.

Hi I have a vaio T with windows GB disk space and the idiot who made the partition gave nothing Space Up Free After worked Disk GB to the C Free Up Disk Space After nothing worked disk that contains windows Long story short winsxs kept eating up the space till I have absolutely nothing left now and I can't even work I can't see thumbnails I can't open up images I'm in online marketing so I need this for my work So now I freed up like mb by deleting the download folder from the ServiceDistribution folder But there is mb taken by service pack update thingy and GB taken by windows updates I disabled windows updates I just want to free those GB so I can work with this computer for another year till macbook air with retina comes up so I don't have to deal with this crap again Now when I use the disk cleanup those files appear etc GB to Free Up Disk Space After nothing worked be freed I click OK it says do you want to delet these files I click OK it runs the load bar for seconds and so and it closes like it worked But when I check the disk space it just didn't work sometimes it ends up eating like another mb instead I did scan disk couple times defragmented nothing is working Is there any method I can delete these files manually somehow I'm really fruustrated and have work that needs to be done Really appreciate any answer Thanks

A:Free Up Disk Space After nothing worked

You say you have only 25 GB devoted to C.

I assume your hard drive is larger than that and that you have some other partitions.

Why can't you steal space from those other partitions and add it to C?

So lately my computer has been suffering from having very little space on the C: drive. It's usually always hovering around less than 1GB of free space. It's a 60GB SSD with Windows, Nvidia drivers, Kaspersky (antivirus), and other core programs installed on it. Does anyone have any advice on how to free up plenty of space on it?

A:How to free up plenty of disk space?

Hello Hankster,

If you like, here are some items that you could use below to free up some space on the hard drive.

So this is what i first thought to be the same old problem with windows device manager telling me the disk has gb free and windows telling me its full or so I thought Lets start at the begging of this story First I had been running dc and downloading stuff to my external hd and one day i notice it telling me that there is again space... enough not There [SOLVED] disk free is no space left on the disc I check device manager and it says that i have something like gb left So I think its probably just a bunch of fragmented files sapping the remainder of the space But I was [SOLVED] There is not enough free disk space... again too lazy to defrag it at the time since the drive is gb and over usb interface and was probably gonna take all night had i actually tried So i change the download folder to my local hd and run things that way for a while So in about a week I discover that my local hd has also been filled time to take out the cyber-trash as it were yes device manager still said i had space left but it was only like so i didn't think there was a problem However upon opening up about another of my internal hd i discovered that windows still told me my drive was full So I lurked around the intarweb and found the whole defrag then disk check method Did that on my internal - worked fine Did the same thing to my external nada I have gb free according to device manager and can't upload an gb file onto it I can however upload a gb folder but cannot upload a gb file I tried to put the file in a folder to check if my roommate put paint thinner in my water but apparently i was not retarded What have i done so far to try to fix this shiz defragged the problem drive rebooted and ran disk check tried freeing up more space currently working on compressing my file The [SOLVED] There is not enough free disk space... again really odd thing is that i tried to copy a gb file already on that drive to a different location on that drive and it said it was fine and would take about min If it matters im running win xp fully updated on a dell D laptop with the ghz c d mb l cache cpu gb ram gb internal hd gb external the problem child maybe i dropped it on its head and now its special does it like tater tots too I will continue to lurk but maybe someone here can save me some time and trouble

A:[SOLVED] There is not enough free disk space... again

Wait... can this be due to the fact that my external drive is using fat32?

Hello Long time browser first time poster I have come across a problem I cannot fix I have a WD Raptor WD GLFS drive I was using as my boot drive that reports it is full when I double click it in Computer Actual message D is not accessible There is not enough space on the disk Knowing it isnt full I ran CHKDSK which reported I had gigs free After a little browsing I came across http support microsoft com kb However when I enter fsutil usn deletejournal D D into the command prompt CMD opened in administration mode it reports Error There is not enough space on the disk For years 58gigs on is the "There disk" enough not but free, space I had drives one for booting this one and one for backup I 58gigs free, but "There is not enough space on the disk" ended 58gigs free, but "There is not enough space on the disk" up putting the backup drive in another PC with the intention of buying a SSD drive for a new primary but had not done so weeks of living on the edge and it bites me pretty hard There are lots of pictures person projects on there I need to recoverEDIT I ran Western Digitals DLGDIAG on the drive and now its giving me a different error when I try to access it D is not accessible the parameter is not correct

A:58gigs free, but "There is not enough space on the disk"

Inability to run the appropriate diagnostic...what procedures are you following?

I'm not seeing any update pending on Windows Update so I've downloaded the update assistant tool from MS to force it. It worked fine on two of my desktop PC's but it complains about having not enough disk space on my 32GB Dell Venue Pro. It currently has ~4GB but it says I need a whopping 16GB! That seems a bit too much. Anyone know of a good workaround for this? If I wait for the scheduled WU update, will it still require much less disk space?

A:Need 16GB of free disk space for the AU?

Originally Posted by TK2011 I'm not seeing any update pending on Windows Update so I've downloaded the update assistant tool from MS to force it. It worked fine on two of my desktop PC's but it complains about having not enough disk space on my 32GB Dell Venue Pro. It currently has ~4GB but it says I need a whopping 16GB! That seems a bit too much. Anyone know of a good workaround for this? If I wait for the scheduled WU update, will it still require much less disk space? it needs the space for downloading the file, unpacking it and installing it. During installation, old windows files are also stored (this took 10GB on my surface). So yes, that space is needed. Do disk cleanup and remove files if possible

My new computer is working fine and everything but i installed Photoshop and crysis and some other games and obviously Office Xp professional now i look on the free space and it says i have only have 50 gb left now this really confused me because i have a 500 GB hard drive in my computer is this normal ?

A:Free space on my Hard disk

Hello...Go to Disk Management:

START > RUN... > type DISKMGMT.MSC and hit Enter

How is your HDD partitioned?How big is Local Disk C: ????And do you have any other volumes or partitions active???

Hi forum Thanks for your help I am having this free disk space problem that I'd like to understand The message appeared quite some time ago I had my thunderbird profile in the C disk as well as some data So I moved it and deleted other stuff and got myself bright beautiful blank space on the C around gbs - Thing is it was a month ago or so and now the problem appears disk out Free itself by system space going again So I am asking for a kind of solution but in first place I'd like to kwon what's going on - I have downloaded quite a few things but they are in another partition I always wipe off the temporal files as well as internet temporary files If Free system disk space going out by itself I install programs they are in another partitio too but is not the case for I have not installed almost anything I know that even if we put the 'program' in a partition some data goes in C nevertheless - I am aware of the existance of those progs that will show the ammount of data and its location and stuff I have read mostly how to get rid of useless things but I'd like to know what happens and if I can prevent it from occuring - I have seen so far with one of those that show the data that the same archive can be located in both folders That happened with the thunderbird profile files which gb would be gb of disk allocation - Thanks again and be well

A:Free system disk space going out by itself

Hey! Update:I didn't do a thing, and I have now 3,5 GB of free space, out of nowhere. Any ideas?

My pc storage is about full. I checked what was using the most space and it was desktop. How do I clear my c drive. I'm a novice so please make your answers as simple as possible

A:how do i free up disk space on drive C

"My pc storage is about full"Could you let us have the figures please? If all else fails double click "This PC" then go to the C drive (which is almost certainly your main drive), right click it and give us the sizes showing. I'm just wondering if the almost full is just from some data drive. The more you can tell us the better because we obviously can't see what is in front of you.It seems odd for the desktop to be the place where most stuff is. If that's right it should be right in front of you so you should be able to decide if there is anything you wish to remove or move onto some other form of storage.Also go to "Control Panel > Programs and Features" to see if there are any programs you don't require any more. Don't delete anything unless you know what it is.Always pop back and let us know the outcome - thanks

I installed Windows 8 Pro on a GPT partition. I have 234GB of SSD with 87% free space according to Disk Management. I am trying to create a 4GB primary partition for Intel Rapid Start but the Disk Part shows i have no space available in that drive and would not let me create the partition. Why would that be?

Thanks,

A:List Disk Shows No Free Space Available.

Sounds like you need to shrink a partitionPartition or Volume - Shrink - Windows 7 Help Forumsthan make a new partitionPartition or Volume - Create New - Windows 7 Help Forums

I just got a message on my hp laptop this morning saying I had low disk space on my C drive, which is my primary drive but when I checked to see how much space was left it says I have 846gbs free out of 908gbs. Why would I get this message when it looks as if I have plenty of free space?

I am having a problem with my HP C8180 printer. It is connected wirelessly to my computer yet when I print something the screen on the printer says 'now printing', but it fails to print anything. However, I tried printing a few words and that worked but I still can't print documents. I think this has something to do with the disk space on the print server and about something called 'spooling'. I would greatly appreciate anyone's help on this issue.

My Factory Image D has only 1.52 GB free space, of 12.9 GB. I have an HP Pavilion with Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit.

What can I do, when I go to D I get the Warning message:"This area of your hard drive(or partition) contains files usedfor your PC Recovery.

Do not delete or alter these files.

Any change to this partition couldprevent any recovery later."

I wil appreciate any help.marita1

**I also want to wholeheartedly thank the posting that helped me last Saturday when I couldn't login, the step by step instructions/information were GREAT!

A:Logical disk D low amount free space

I am afraid that I do not fully understand your question. That D partition should not be touched. If you have a problem with your computer, there are keys (usually f keys) that you push during boot up, to restore to factory specs. It should be used only in dire circumstances.

I began by saying I did not quite understand. If you care to elaborate further, maybe I can give further assistance.

Last night, the available free space on my computer's hard disk was 8.11GB. Today, it's at 7.77GB. I did not install anything or download anything, either last night or today. The free space has been dropping down like this for days. What could be the cause of it?

A:The hard disk free space keeps dropping

Hello bd74,

If you like, the tutorial below may be able to help you determine what is using up you hard drive space.

Hi Since yesterday My laptop suddenly started lagging a lot I opened Task Manager and saw that the Disk Usage was at The only things causing it to rise are the essential Windows Programs This causes so much lag though that if I try to run more than application at a time nothing starts responding and it forces Me to Force Shutdown manually by holding the power button I tried a new Browser went from Firefox to Chrome and still the same problem I decided I want to upgrade to despite great Usage space. 100% Disk free Windows since I'm qualified to have Disk Usage 100% despite great free space. it free but whenever I try to install it the quot Checking for Updates quot loading bar never finishes and if I try to close it or anything else it'll freeze up all over again Please help What should I do I had to go into Safe Mode to be able to Disk Usage 100% despite great free space. make an account here and type this up I've already uninstalled some stuff even though I barely have anything occupying a lot of space to begin with I certainly didn't download anything malicious as the day before it started lagging it worked absolutely fine and haven't downloaded anything from then on Thank You

A:Disk Usage 100% despite great free space.

Diagnostics Test

System File Check

Please try following:Open an admin command promptCopy/paste "sfc/scannow" (without quotes) and press enterWhen it finished reboot your systemOpen again an admin command promptEnter sfc/scannow againIf sfc/scannow does NOT say "Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violation" after the second SFC, please upload the cbs.log file located at {windows partition}\Windows\Logs\CBS\, if the file is too large try a 3rd party uploader like dropbox, onedrive, google drive, mediafire etc.System File Check(SFC a.k.a. Windows Resource Protection) needs to have your system rebooted in order for sfc to try to fix the problems that it finds.

Recently I have been noticing my free hard disk space disappearing. It was around 80GB, and now it is nearer 70. During this time I have actually been uninstalling programs and removing files, so the disk usage should be noticable less, not more. When I check the sizes of the folders in the root of the drive (c:\), they add up to about 26GB. However the disk usage under the properties for the whole drive are 40GB. Can someone help me to find where this free space is going?

I am on Vista Home Premium 32bit.

Thanks,Alex

A:Losing Free Hard Disk Space

It is most likely System Restore points and shadow copies, which is the way the OS is suppose to work.

In addition download this free software to see what is on the hard drive.WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics

Here disk sata acknowledged space not being Free s a new one for you guys I have three sata hard drives in my primary computer WinXp acknowledges all three All three drives have the appropriate quot total quot hard disk space posted in explorer and everywhere else for that matter The problem is the free space I can have for instance gigs of free space on a drive or partition I can create copy a -gig file on to that drive or partition delete it and explorer Free sata disk space not being acknowledged will show only -gig free disk space Copying or creating files on to that drive or partition will continue to consume the space until space runs out Deleting files doesn t make a difference I cannot recover the free disk space unless I reformat the drive or partition I have Free sata disk space not being acknowledged tried performing a clean install of XP updating the motherboard bios and updating motherboard drivers None of which have worked so far Any insight as to what is going on Unless I can pinpoint the problem I have resigned myself to the fact that a new motherboard may be the only solution Thanks in advance for the help nbsp

My computer won't boot into Windows 98se during start-up, so I've been trying to reinstall. Midway through installation I get a message saying I need to free up disk space. Is there a way to do this? Please let me know what other info you might need. Thanks!

Hello I m a first-time poster and nearly computer illiterate-- but I m learning I am using a Windows enough space disk Unable for defrag free to XP Pro on a Dell Inspiron My laptop is running pretty slow--especially on start-up but more Unable to free enough disk space for defrag importantly I have very little free disk space I keep getting a little pop-up telling me I have X amount under MB of free disk space So I run disk clean-up which helps a little I finally decided it s time to try to run the disk defragmenter it s been a long time since I have but I need to free up of my hard drive to run it I ve deleted all the programs I m comfortable deleting I ve deleted temporary files lowered the percentage of space used for system restore lowered the percentage of space used for temporary files and I still only have of free space I ve try to do some research but everyone just says to run the defrag tool to free up space no one says what to do if you can t run the tool Somewhere on this site I found some free defrag downloads but they haven t worked For instance DefragNT I waited for minutes while it Unable to free enough disk space for defrag analyzed disk C and when it finished it mysteriously closed I waited another minutes while it Unable to free enough disk space for defrag analyzed again and then it froze after I tried to start defragmenting I tried two different things from quot Uniblue quot one was called quot Registry Booster quot and I can t remember the other one They just quot analyzed quot also There is another issue which may be affecting my free space I m not sure When I start up there are two versions of Windows and I am given seconds to choose one Only the first one works I am told this is a quot partition quot issue I only sort of understand what this means but I read somewhere that this might be taking up space I can t remember where but I found instructions for deleting the unused partition-- but they didn t work There was a button that should have been highlighted but wasn t so I couldn t complete the task Sorry for the book I ve written here I hope you can help Thanks nbsp

I'm using my old Sony Viao Laptop, for a temporary road trip and I'm trying to download Windows XP SP2 for the Win XP Pro I am running on this computer. Problem is: I do not have enough disk space. It is a 10Gb hard disk partitioned with a C: and D: Drive. The D: drive has almost 4Gb of space free. How do I partition the drives to utilize that space? If not partition maybe I can do something else.I am running WIN XP PRO, version 2002, with a Pentium III processor (695MHz) and 512 MB of RAM

Hi folks Lately I have downloaded a fair few movies TV shows concerts etc and I have started to become mindful of the dwindling amount of space available on my hard drive I hope someone can help me with what are probably some pretty dumb questions I am wondering what others more expert than me do in this regard Best questions... dumb Some space? to way free up disk to free up disk space do you burn those clunky video files that are taking up space on your hard disk to DVD-R s and delete those files from your computer I have probably got a fair amount Best way to free up disk space? Some dumb questions... of stuff in the non-essential category that would not devastate me to delete from my computer as long as I first burned to disc This is probably an even dumber question I do regular weekly back-up to a TB external hard drive Having backed up lots of my clunky video files to an external hard drive if I then delete those files from my computer does this also delete the same backed-up files from the external hard drive Apologies for my ignorance I am just hoping an expert or experts here might be able to give me some tips for best practice for freeing-up disk space Thanks in advance for any help offered nbsp

A:Best way to free up disk space? Some dumb questions...

Running out of disk space means that you need to get more. You can put it off, try to recover space on the drive, copy things to DVD, and so on. But eventually, if you want to save things, you need to cough up the bucks.

Movies can be easily stored on DVD's. I usually store them in their original avi or mpg formats since I can get many of them on a DVD. External drives are really a good idea because not only do they give you storage space, but you can make periodic images of your internal drives. Then, when your drive fails, and it will, you don't lose everything, including your operating system. You jst get a new drive and restore everything from the image that you made.

Look on the external. Are your videos still there? that should answer your deletion question.

Hi I'm new to Windows I need some help with a disk space issue I installed Ultimate to disk required Help! space 7? run (Free) Windows on partition of gb Based on my experience with Windows XP I thought it would be enough Now I think it is too small Anyway free space seemed allright after initial installation but now after few months it is pretty full I can't figure out what happened to the space Because when I clean up some directories I notice that Windows quickly starts to consume the free space What I'm trying to find out is what is taking up space I don't know how I have unhidden Help! (Free) disk space required to run Windows 7? all files folders on the disk When I select all files folders and then access the properties I Help! (Free) disk space required to run Windows 7? can see that the folders and files are taking Help! (Free) disk space required to run Windows 7? op GB So it seems there is other 'hidden-hidden data' on the disk than files folders and that 'data' is taking up the remaining GB Any ideas on what it using this space and why I'm not using system restore btw Is there a tool utility you can recommend that can help manage disk space on Windows I tried installing WinDirStat but that doesn't seem to work on Windows I couldn't install it As a side note too bad that Windows didn't improve on utilities for managing disk space It seems I cannot be done without third party tools Thanks in advance Onno

A:Help! (Free) disk space required to run Windows 7?

Hi Onno. Welcome to Seven Forums!

Perhaps you have the windows.old folder which is created when you clean install Win7 over XP or Vista. It resides in the root (C?) drive of the OS, stuffed with the entire prior OS including all your files.

We help people remove dual boots, rearrange their partitions, copy partitions and HD's, etc. every day here.

If you would like more specific advice please post back a screen snip of your full Disk Management map, using the snipping tool in Start Menu, attaching file using paper clip in reply box. Tell us what you would like to accomplish, and we'll give you the steps.

We've had good results using free Partition Wizard bootable CD to do almost any reconfiguration of HD. It has a great graphical interface with slider buttons to move partitions.

But there are very specific steps to be followed since if the boot critical files are moved, they need to be recovered using the Win7 DVD repair console which is also fully automated.

I currently have free had more my have hard previously disk I space I seem to on much than GB space free I seem to have much more free space on my hard disk than I had previously on my hard disk but the last time I checked I I seem to have much more free space on my hard disk than I had previously think I had around GB or GB free I don't know where I got this free space from Maybe it's my imagination and I've only used about GB for quite a while I deleted the contents of the regcleaner folder a couple of days ago because I was told to do so in a hijackthis thread but it wouldn't hold so much I wouldnt think I hope I didn't delete anything important I also was told to quot turn off System Restore on all drives quot and then turn it on again so maybe this created space I tried to defrag the pc unsuccessfully yesterday so I don't know if this gave me extra space even though it didnt work-though it doesnt do this anyway I'm not sure I did defrag it properly today To be honest I don't know but I cant ever remember only having used GB instead of or GB like I used to have

A:I seem to have much more free space on my hard disk than I had previously

When you turned off System restore you cleared all previous restores and freed up the space they held.

What's strange, is the following. Anytime I see this, I make a copy of a file big enough that makes the size of the free space much lower (say 15MB). When I do that, instead somehow the missing space "gets found".

this is on a windows 2000 server machine.2 Scsi drives. The 2nd scsi drive is a 13 gig drive, and when i go into it and select all and properties to see the total amount of the files size, i get a total of 2.5 gigs. Now i have the option to show all hidden and even system files, so everything should be showing. When i look at teh free space left, it says theres only 1.5 gigs left. I'm losing 9 gigs somehow and i don't know where? The other drive is reading the free disk space fine, but this one has me worried. I've ran scandisk, defrag, 2 anti-virus programs and still nothing.Has anyone delt with any of this??

On a Compaq desktop running XP Home Edition w/ sp 3 I have a 250GB hard drive. When attempting to back-up the My Documents folder which has a total of 101GB of files I have no problem copying that information to a 320GB or 500GB external hard drive except for some files/folders in the My Videos folder.The total space in the My Videos folder is 69GBWhen I try to copy some files/folders from My Videos to either of the external hard drives that have plenty of free space I get the following:Error Copying File or Folder dialog box stating that "There is not enough free disk space".Why would I be getting that message when the drive where I am copying the data to has more than enough free space?O vay!

A:Solved: Not enough free disk space error

The external drive are probably either FAT or FAT32. FAT has a file size limit of 2gb and FAT32 has a limit of 4gb.

One of my favorite features of Windows Explorer was that it told me the free disk space in the status bar Since Windows Vista you also had the ability to see the free space on hard drives across the network Now in Windows you can't even in the least see the free space on the status bar of your own pc let alone those across the network and for someone who's constantly moving files across my home network it's becoming a bit of a hassle I don't think there's away to to restore this functionality already installed the ClassicShell program so absent Disk Monitoring Free Tool Space of that is there a free disk space monitoring tool you guys can recommend I'm mainly looking for one that has a system tray function that can tell me the amount of free space I have left either in percentage form or megabyte form or gigabyte form whatever It would Free Disk Space Monitoring Tool make my life that much easier with my laptop I appreciate any help Thanks

A:Free Disk Space Monitoring Tool

Originally Posted by Wiso

One of my favorite features of Windows Explorer was that it told me the free disk space in the status bar. Since Windows Vista, you also had the ability to see the free space on hard drives across the network.

hi
i have a problem with my laptop.70 gig of my hard space is missed . i know that it is in c:/user/sadra/appdata/local but
when i check each subfolder or subfile in "local" i cant find such a huge space like that.
i have read many posts about it but in fact all solutions were useless .
i appreciate any suggestion.

This is not a malware issue and shouldn't have been posted here. If you don't get anything related to spyware or viruses, post this in the Windows forum instead. I see nothing wrong here except for some minor entries:

Run a scan in HijackThis. Check each of the following if they still exist and hit 'Fix Checked' after you checked the last one:

i deleted my D and have 20 gb free space, but i cant delete it to make it an unallocated space (the delete partition option is greyed out) ..

im sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this on.....ive been working on this for 5 hours and im pissed right now..lol

A:Can't Delete Free Space in Disk Management

Hello Akash666, welcome to Seven Forums!

Have you right clicked that Free Space to see if you get a "Delete" option in the drop-down, though if it's part of an Extended partition (more than one Logical) you may not be able to create it as unallocated space; post a snip for us to have a look at.

Information

Before we make any specific recommendations will you please post a snip/screen-shot of the entire Windows disk management drive map with a full description as to which drive/partition is which, so we can see what you have going on as there may be a fairly simple way to resolve the situation.

In the Windows start menu right click computer and click manage, in the left pane of the "Computer Management" window that opens click disk management and post a maximized snip of that.How to Upload and Post a Screenshot and File in Seven Forums

System Diagnostics Report Diagnostic Results Warnings Informational Symptom D has less than free disk space Cause A logical disk has a low amount of free disk space Details D has MB free disk space There is free Low disk space may than 15% Drive less Solved: space has D free disk cause poor performance and low virtual memory errors Resolution Verify Solved: D Drive has less than 15% free disk space disk space is low by viewing the drive using quot Computer quot from the Start menu Back up non-critical files and then remove them from the drive Perform a disk cleanup Solved: D Drive has less than 15% free disk space Related Free up disk space -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity Information Warning The average disk queue length is The disk may be at its maximum transfer capacity due to throughput and disk seeks Related Disk Diagnosis Basic System Checks Tests Result Description OS Checks Passed Checks for attributes of the operating system Test Groups Tests Failed Description OS Version Check Passed Disk Checks Failed Checks for disk status Test Groups Tests Failed Description SMART Predict Failure Check Passed Logical Disk Dirty Bit Check Passed Free Disk Space Available C Drive C has free disk space MB Free Disk Space Available D Drive D has free disk space MB I have windows vista home premium I have tried the disk cleanup and that didn t do anything I cleared all the restore points except the last one and that gained me about MB for a day and now it s back to where it was Does anybody know how to resolve this issue nbsp

I'm running Windows 7 with a 218GB hard disk. At one point I noticed that the hard disk space was significantly less than it should be. I deleted a few files and emptied the recycle bin, but the free filespace only decreased. After restarting, the filespace had gone down to less than a gigabyte. It was constantly fluctuating but would be consistently under a gigabyte. It also caused my computer to act very slow.

Per some suggestions that I found online, I downloaded i.Disk to see what was taking up all this space, and it showed up that I have 176GB used (which is much more accurate). But on Explorer, it still says I have only a few gigabytes left. So obviously something is wrong. I'm running a virus scan at the moment, but in the meantime does anyone know what is causing this problem?

A:Hard Disk Free Space Acting Up

Check your system restore settings sounds like your shadow copies are multiplying and eating up you disk space.

When using outlook exp 6.0, I receive this message. I got a solution from one of the other threads. The solution was to zero the count, in the registry, which worked. However, after several days, the same message returns "To free up disk space OE can compact messages". If I go into the registry and set the value to zero, it's fine for a few days, but still returns. Any idea how to make this setting permanent, or is there another solution for this problem? Please help!!!

A:Free Up Disk Space" OE warning

I wouldn't recommend trying. OE needs to compact the messages, for despite the name, it is really deleting messages that you have deleted. I would suggest you read this page, but make note of this line near the bottom of the page: "Do not change the registry just to avoid compaction."

Each time I open outlook 2007, I receive the following message "To free up disk space, Outlook Express can compact messages. This may take upto a few minutes".

I do not use outlook express.

Can someone advise why this is happening and how I can stop this message from appearing when outlook starts.

Thank you

A:To free up disk space - Outlook 2007

Can you post a screen shot showing the message and enough of the Outlook screen to see that it is in deed Outlook that is open?

Do not get angry with me here, but I know of several people who thought that they were running Outlook, when in fact that it was Outlook Express. This message should NOT appear at all when using Outlook.

Hi, I have a problem. When I go to look at my hard drive in my computer, it tells me I have 0 bytes of free space left, this is obviously wrong but I don't know what is causing my computer to say it. There are a few other strange things going on as well, can anyone help me?

A:PC telling me I've got no free Hard Disk space

We would be more than happy to help you but with vague info like you have given us,nobody can help.Could give us your System info as well as more specific info about any error messages you may be getting.Also what are the "few other strange things going on as well"

Hello - this is my first post on this forum and I am glad I found you!

Yesterday morning my free disk space stood at 19 GB (total capacity: 232 GB). Last night it had jumped to 128 GB free space (without me having deleted anything). This baffled me and freaked me out as I am now worried I have lost lots of stuff, although I have so far not found anything to be missing. Can someone please explain how this could have happened and if I should be worried? Was there a gremlin that was blocking free space and perhaps this gremlin popped his clogs and now all is well? If things have disappeared, is there a way I can find out what has gone awol?

If someone could enlighten me, I would be very grateful!

A:Huge (and sudden) leap in free disk space - why/how?

First of all - welcome to BC !

Have you done anything like empty your re-cycle bin or do a de-frag since yesterday morning ? A de-frag will normally free up a little hard drive space and emptying the re-cycle bin frees up the amount that was in it, but I have never seen the contents level of the bin set that high.

What I would do in your position is back up all my own data - work, photos, music, etc. - to external storage. What you use depends on how much you have but since your figures suggest you have about 100 GB of data I would recommend an external hard drive. Once you have backed up your data you can relax - your data is safe. Then you can go looking to see if anything you know was there before is now gone.

I have to admit I cannot think of anything that could produce this effect except possibly an instrumentation error. But back up your data then post back if you still have worries.

EDIT I think I solved the problem It was something Hard Free Space Losing Disk Rapidly caused by Registry Mechanic creating this massive xml document for some unknown reason I uninstalled reg mech and things seem to be back on track I m not entirely certain if this is a malware issue so I apologize if this is in the wrong forum I did browse around the forums looking for a similar issue and discovered This Thread But it doesn t seem to have been fully solved yet and we are on different OSs ANYWAYS here s the problem I have a Tb HDD with roughly Gb of free space Last night I decided to get on my computer and immediately I notice that I m receiving pop ups alerting me that drive C is running low on free disk space I check to Hard Disk Rapidly Losing Free Space see what I m woirking with and my computer tells me that I have less than Mb remaining on C That was pretty Hard Disk Rapidly Losing Free Space alarming After running disk cleanup Spybot S amp D Registry Mechanic Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes and came up with little to no results I decided to reboot and hope that it would miraculously work itself out Upon logging in I noticed that I had my gb of free space back The joy came to soon however as I kept checking back on my disk space and noticing between - Gb vanishing every few minutes After struggling with that for a while I decided to just shut it down and sleep on it for the night This morning I disconnected my computer from my ethernet connection before booting it up just to see if maybe whatever was filling my space was using my net connection to do so Alas after a few minutes of idling I got to again witness my gb start diminishing So I reconnected my ethernet and here I am nbsp

I recently used File Shredder to shred a bunch of my files thinking it would free up the disk space like deleting it would have; except it didn't. Is there a way to free up the disk space after shredding the files? What kind of program should I be looking for? I've used WinUtilities to clean up some duplicates and registry files without doing too much damage.

I'm running windows vista (64-bit) with and original 220 GB hard drive, now down to 47.7 GB because I can't figure out how to free it up.

A:Deleting shredded files to free up disk space

You can try CCleaner to delete temporary files.

If you're confused what's using up all the space on the disk, try one of the following disk analyzing utilities:1) RidNacs2) WinDirStat

Recently I made a few videos with fraps that took up around gigs of space so I decided to compress all that and upload to youtube not after space Free files deleting does disk increase the amount of space the videos are taking up are now down to but my free disk space hasn't increased in fact it's decreasing as if I never deleted the videos it isn't decreasing on it's own only if I make files so basically it'll take up space and it just stays that way for some reason I've looked around the internet for a solution I have tried Disabling automatic backup that didn't do anything Scanned my computer with malwarebytes to make sure it isn't some worm nothing found Used disk cleanup cleared up MB but the free space still didn't change Used CCleaner cleared up MB but the free space still didn't change Used disk check nothing bad was found Used WinDirStat everything seems fine as it should be but theres gigs of lt unknown Free disk space does not increase after deleting files gt and I have no freaking clue what it is Used SpaceSniffer found absolutely nothing that would take up that much space I would use defraggler but it will take WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too long so I'd use it when I have no other option there's gotta be another way other than literally waiting over a day for defraggler to finish and chances are that it wouldn't change anything as well meaning I would have wasted a bunch of time if defraggler doesn't help I'll just reformat the whole thing Any suggestions Additional information Specs GB HDD GB RAM Windows Home Premium bit

A:Free disk space does not increase after deleting files

Welcome to the Seven Forums Jack101.

I suggest that instead of using Defraggler you use Puran Defrag and carry out a boot-time defrag.

Now about free disk space. Sometimes the correct free disk space shows up after a reboot. However from your message it would appear that you have already tried that but without success. Another way to find out how much free space exists is to open the Command Prompt and use the "dir/p" command. Please try that and check if the free space shown is identical with what you see with your method and report back with the command prompt screen shot after dir/p has been executed.

I decided to move all of my data files under a primary folder to make backing up my personal data files easier. I did a check before and after of my free space and surprisingly, my free disk space has more than doubled after doing this (and I did not delete any files, nor did I empty my Trash after moving the files).

This happened on the primary disk AND a backup drive I have at the house. The first time I did it I thought I was losing it, but after taking before and after snapshots again with my backup drive, I'm convinced I'm not

Is there any explanation as to why Win7 is reporting more than double the free disk space when all I've done is moved all of my personal data files under a main folder???? It just makes no sense.

Thanks,

Andy

A:Seeing over double free disk space after moving files around...

Hmmm.......

Does the amount of free space you NOW see at least roughly correspond to what you'd expect to see?

Do other hard drive tools also report much more free space?

Do you seem to be missing anything? All apps work and all personal files appear to be there and OK?

Offhand--maybe you had 2 instances of each file and now have only 1?

Do you or did you keep this data somewhere under C:\users?

Libraries are foreign to me and for that reason I don't use them, but they may have caused you some confusion.

I keep my data OUTSIDE of C:\users on D, with no connection to the library.

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Hi I am working on creating space on a laptop It has a GB HD Out of this apparently almost GB is taken up by system backup restore partition I think So the total disk appears as a GB disk I started to backup files using the Toshiba Disk Creator but frequently got errors saying it could not continue writing to the DVD because it may have scratches or something to that effect This happened several times After this when I was actually successful in writing to another DVD I deleted the folders on the disk that I had backed up to the DVD increase Free does deleting after not disk files space Thus I was expecting the free space to go up But it didn't I tried using ccleaner Free disk space does not increase after deleting files and I also tried rebooting thinking that after reboot I will see more free space But it didn't Eventually I started using another disk burning program ImgBurn since I was fed up with the Toshiba Disk Creator and then I noticed that suddenly by free disk space went up from GB to GB So I thought the problem might have been that Toshiba Disk Creator was creating some kind of cache for storing temp files but when I looked in AppData I did not see any large files or even a large number of files from my previous unsuccessful attempts at writing to DVDs Since the free disk space went up I was happy and I continued using ImgBurn with better results But after I deleted the folders that I had backed up I again noticed that sometimes I am not seeing the free disk space go up I would appreciate any pointers as to what I should look for or do Toshiba Satellite L - GB RAM GB HD Windows Vista Home Premium with SP Intel Core Duo T GHz Please let me know if you need any other information Thank you

A:Free disk space does not increase after deleting files

Two questions:
(1) How are you performing the deletions?
(2) How do check how much free disk space you have?

This has been a problem for about a week and a half now Something is eating up disk space on my computer and I have no idea what it is I haven t been downloading anything at all Deleting programs helps temporarily but not long after I free up space it s taken up again Last night Windows showed me as have free space so I removed Starcraft Then it showed me as having gigs free I woke up this morning to having zero free space yet again I ran Spybot and Malwarebytes but they found nothing I have no idea what s going on can anyone help Here s my specs Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version OS Version Microsoft Windows Home Premium bit Processor Genuine Intel R CPU U GHz Intel Family Model Stepping Processor Count RAM Mb Graphics Card Mobile Intel R Series Express Chipset Family Mb Hard Drives C Total - MB Disk Windows Solved: Space Shows Zero Free Free - Solved: Windows Shows Zero Free Disk Space MB Motherboard Alienware VWGCV Antivirus None nbsp

Hello to everyone who might see this I had a problem when I decided to remove Ubuntu from a dual-boot system When I removed GRUB and deleted the blank named partitions that were in Disk Management the equivalent space of those two was shown as 'Free Space' I proceeded to delete it but the option was greyed out I read in another thread that making a new volume out of this free space and then deleting that may resolve the issue but it just won't happen What I did was make a Simple Volume from the free space and then deleting it This made it go back to free space but still the 'Delete Volume' option was greyed out Also I tried slow formatting the Simple Volume and then deleting it to see if it helped but that too isn't any help Another thing is that when I decided to shrink a different volume to add that space on to another partition I had even that free space is undeletable I am not at all used to work with hard drives and partitions so can some one please steer me in the right direction By the way I attached a snap of my Disk Management window along with this message The GB free space is the one made after deleting the Ubuntu volumes and the GB one was created after I shrunk a separate volume and as I typed before both of Disk Delete Space' Management in 'Free to Unable these are undeletable I'll appreciate any help you can give Thank you

After using up 38 Gigs of my 40 Gig Hd drive, I decided to delete some unused programs. I made some drastic cuts, a good 8 or 10 gigs, and yet, in checking "Properties", I still find the same 2 gigs of free space remaining. I have already emptied the Recycle bin so those deleted files should be gone. Any ideas? I'm running XP Pro and ie 6.0.

A:Hard Disk Free Space Remains Unchanged!

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Hi guys I have two hard disks in my Solved: free Missing Hard in disk space computer one is a Solved: Missing free space in Hard disk gb Solved: Missing free space in Hard disk and other gb the gb HDD has been partitioned into two roughly Gb each with xp installed on one of them I m running windows XP sp which is installed in the C drive roughly Gb The problem tat i face is that windows reports the free size to be only mb When i check into the file properties of all the files it reports to be around GB i have no idea where the remaning gb is gone Here s Solved: Missing free space in Hard disk a list of things that i have done Enabled to show hidden operating system files Cleared temp files using CCleaner Tried chkdsk r option Turned off system restore Tried lots of disk reporting softwares which also couldn t find the missing space I ve attached some screenshots which will be helpful Still I am not able to find out the exact reason for this prob Plz suggest nbsp